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Is This Autism?

A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else
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Is This Autism? offers an accessible and compassionate exploration of autism, highlighting how it presents in individuals who often camouflage their traits. Through a detailed walkthrough of diagnostic criteria, enriched by quotes from over 100 autistic contributors, the book balances the latest research with lived experience. It covers lesser-known aspects such as autistic strengths, co-occurring conditions, sensory differences, neuro-crash and burn out, and diverse thinking styles, presenting a neurodiversity-affirming perspective.

This resource is valuable for healthcare professionals, educators, family members, and autistic individuals seeking a deeper understanding of autismโ€™s varied presentations. A clinical companion guide is also available for diagnostic use.
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This book is ideal for healthcare professionals, educators, family members of autistic individuals, autistic people themselves, and anyone interested in the nuanced presentations of autism and neurodiversity.

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Though our understanding of autism has greatly expanded, many autistic individuals are still missed or misdiagnosed. This highly accessible book clarifies many ways that autism can present, particularly in people who camouflage to hide their autistic traits.

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Though our understanding of autism has greatly expanded, many autistic individuals are still missed or misdiagnosed. This highly accessible book clarifies many ways that autism can present, particularly in people who camouflage to hide their autistic traits.

The authors take the reader step by step through the diagnostic criteria, incorporating the latest research as well as quotes from over 100 autistic contributors that bring that research to life. They also describe many aspects of autism that are not included in the current diagnostic criteria, such as autistic strengths and co-occurring disorders. Readers will learn about highly relevant topics, such as different types of empathy, sensory systems that are not well known, neuro-crash and burn out, and relative versus absolute thinking.

This book provides a deep, current, and neurodiversity-affirmative understanding of the less obvious presentations of autism. It is relevant to all healthcare professionals, educators, family members, autistic individuals, and anyone who is curious about autism. A clinical companion guide, Is This Autism? A Companion Guide for Diagnosing, is available for clinicians who make mental health diagnoses.

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Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes, praises the book as a "towering accomplishment" that sensitively and compassionately transforms understanding of autism for clinicians, families, and autistic readers alike. Barb Cook, developmental educator and neurodiversity advocate, calls it "genuinely one of the best books" she has read, applauding its neuro-affirming approach that enriches medical and therapeutic fields.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032150239

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 1 Tables, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 520g

Pages: 264

About the Author

Donna Henderson, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, specializing in neuropsychological evaluations for children, adolescents, and adults who would like to understand themselves better. She is a sought-after lecturer and provides training and consultation for other healthcare professionals.

Sarah Wayland, PhD, is the founder of Guiding Exceptional Parents, and co-founder of The Behavior Revolution. She provides neurodiversity-affirmative support, education, and community for parents of neurodivergent children.

Jamell White, PhD, LCSW-C, has a background in clinical social work, special education, and human development. She specializes in working with autistic children, adolescents, and adults and has over 20 years of clinical experience.

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